It’s reasonable to expect that a game which you were encouraged to pre-order on PS4, which has been in development for PS4 for about 8 years, and which the publisher delivered statements would look good on PS4, and which the launch was delayed in final months specifically to polish for PS4, would look decent and run…

Thissss. This is not a PS5 game with poor backwards compatibility, it’s a (very) long overdue PS4 title that is ridiculously unoptimized. If Witcher 3 can look good on PS4, I see no reason why Cyberpunk should be given a pass for being a giant step backwards. 

When someone asks for a refund on these platforms, is the game removed from their library, like it is on Steam? I would hope so, but I’ve never been in a position to refund a game through Microsoft, GOG, or PSN (especially if you have a physical disc that you bought from a retailer???).

I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I do work in public health administration, and am helping my Board define their plan for vaccines for our local service population. 

The decision to offer genital customization, but then make it so limited and inequitable is one thing. That the game then locks you into first person so as to make character customization entirely theoretical, outside of penis clipping cut scenes, is another. And the fact that 99.99% of vendor trash you find litered…

I’m struggling to understand what “But we’ve extended all other possible means of navigating the situation” was supposed to mean there. That isn’t a coherent phrase.

Would make a great gift for any hip judges in your life!

Absolutely. In film it makes sense, because the author knows where the audience’s eyes are focused in the frame, and knows exactly where the action is. If it’s important, it will be closer to the foreground, because that’s how shots are staged. In a video game, it’s far far far more likely that the audience might be…

Video games are for everyone, and I’m all in favor of corporations being required to take meaningful measures to warn or educate their consumers about the risks their product presents, so that people can make educated decisions. Just feels like a boilerplate warning on load-up isn’t going to help that, and a…

Looks more like Coach at the top, I think you got the cheeks right the first time!

So it’s just boilerplate that ALL games throw on, but some also (or should also) add splash screens calling it out on startup?

A lot of the grey replies to my post are in this vein, so I want to clarify: if Riley has concerns about the Trans representation in this game, I’m not arguing with him AT ALL about that. I thought the article was wishy-washy and unfocused, just wish he’d picked one and explored it, instead of rambling all over for…

I can’t imagine that they don’t patch in that warning screen as soon as possible; if it made its way into the EULA, it’s not like they’re disputing the risk or ignorant of it, sounds like they just overlooked putting it in at start up as best practice dictates?

The “mixed feelings” in the title come off more as overwhelmed ambivalence and fatigue in the article, than like you truly have had a mixed experience with good and bad game elements. Again and again and again you bring up things that seem subjectively good, and then qualify that by saying they left you cold,…

That repeats a lot of what I’d read, and make mRNA vaccines exciting and cool... which still leaves me wondering why we haven’t been developing flu vaccines for them in the last few years, since (to my limited understanding) supply bottlenecks are such a big challenge to those every single year? Don’t we develop…

Yeah, “No mRNA vaccine has yet made it to market” had me googling to figure out why that would be the case, since I’m not going to watch a video on the subject at work (really, Beth?). Googling around it sounds like the technology isn’t widely used more because of efficacy reasons than any special safety reasons with…

I think I’ve partially played Brotherhood, Black Flag, and Syndicate... it’s hard to keep straight, because I’ve finished none of them. In each instance, some sort of bullshit modern office scene has been the point where I stopped playing and had no interest starting up again. Nobody gives a shit about this modern…

I was staring at the ceiling of my doctor’s office the other day, and it’s that type of foam panel with all the tiny little air bubbles? And really thinking to myself, god I’m glad I don’t have trypophobia right now, this would be really oppressive, there’d just be no getting away from it, it would probably feel like…

Can PS+ subscribers that don’t yet own a PS5 just grab a copy to add to their library of PS5 games, preparing for buying one in the future? I can’t recall there being any sort of gatekeeping/validation with PS+ or the PS Store to check what systems I do or don’t own...

It could just me being a poorly educated consumer, but I know I’ve run afoul before of having a base game before and having purchasing an upgrade for it be more expensive than the sales to purchase an entirely new copy of the game with expansions. Dragon Age Inquisition I think is what caught me up, left a bad taste…